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29341 Bringing back the draft -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Does this Luntz fellow usually carry anyone in particular's water, or is he >just bad at what he does? He's pretty right-wing. But he also seems to tell people what they want to hear. He skewed his polling on the Contract With America so it made the thing look more popular than it turned out to be, and he did the Social Security/UFO poll to lubricate the privatizers' agenda. You could say he's good at what he does - but what he does is more about marketing than research. Here's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 2 09:50:33 PDT 2002

29342 Blodget to be indicted? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 2, 2002 FEDS TO FINGER BLODGET & CO. By JESSICA SOMMAR Criminal charges are expected to fly soon against former analysts at Merrill Lynch. Federal prosecutors are expected to level criminal charges against some of Wall Street's former high-flying Internet analysts as soon as next week, sources told The Post. While it is unclear who might be charged, those under the gun include former Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget as well as others who were the targets of a lawsuit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 2 07:07:27 PDT 2002

29343 MBAs - who needs 'em? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - July 2, 2002 Report Questions M.B.A. Degree's Value, but Students Seem Unconcerned By KATHERINE S. MANGAN Although master's programs in business administration continue to attract record numbers of applicants, little evidence exists that they enhance a person's career or earnings potential, a Stanford University business professor contends in a controversial new report. The professor, Jeffrey Pfeffer, examined 40 years' worth of studies that purported ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 2 06:52:26 PDT 2002

29344 Bringing back the draft -- rank: 1000

pms quoted George McEvoy, Palm Beach Post Columnist: >The survey was done by Lutz Research Cos., a respected polling and political >consulting firm headed by Frank Lutz. Um, it Luntz, and it's not respected. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 2 06:33:50 PDT 2002

29345 book project -- rank: 1000

<http://www.art.man.ac.uk/ENGLISH/staff/pk/research/Encyclopedia/outline.html> The Encyclopedia of American Conspiracy Theories is a two-volume, 500,000-word illustrated reference work to be published by ABC-CLIO in 2004. The encyclopedia is a scholarly survey of the history and present of political conspiracy theories in the USA [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 1 15:58:38 PDT 2002

29346 Israel "blowing things up with complete impunity" -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - Monday, July 01, 2002 Background / World's silence over Sharon's military policies By Bradley Burston, Ha'aretz Correspondent The world's sudden, uncustomary silence over Israeli military policies could give Ariel Sharon unprecedented latitude - license to take far-reaching military actions, or to refrain from acting diplomatically - in what could mean license to kill the peace process. A number of factors - some as curious and fleeting as the month-long World Cup soccer championships ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 1 12:09:04 PDT 2002

29347 Canada Day -- rank: 1000

This being Canada Day, any subscribers from the Great White North want to weigh in? Seems, among other things, that the Canadian economy is outperforming the U.S. How's that feel? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 1 11:16:57 PDT 2002

29348 so where's Joey? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.islandear.com/current/coverstory.htm> Cover Story Judging Amy: My Story by Amy Fisher [...]

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Date:	Mon Jul 1 09:21:45 PDT 2002

29349 Fwd: 6331-RUSSIA'S UNCERTAIN ECONOMIC FUTURE -- rank: 1000

[via Johnson's Russia List - I'm pretty sure John Hardt is the father of Michael] ******** Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 From: John Hardt <jadmr at comcast.net> Subject: Re: Russia's Uncertain Economic Future Russia's Uncertain Economic Future, a 463 page volume, has been released by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and is now on the Government Printing Office {GPO] website. You may find it with the following: http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/joint/sjoint03.html and scroll dow ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 1 08:09:08 PDT 2002

29350 Cheney in SEC sights? -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 1, 2002 SEC HAS ITS EYES ON VEEP By DEBORAH ORIN July 1, 2002 -- The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday vowed to "go after" Vice President Dick Cheney if an SEC probe finds wrongdoing when he headed Halliburton Corp., the giant oil-field company. "I head an independent regulatory agency," SEC Chief Harvey Pitt told ABC's "This Week" when asked specifically about Halliburton and Cheney. Halliburton disclosed last month that ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 1 07:44:47 PDT 2002

29351 Libertarians love Doug! -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Your interview with Vidal is a link at antiwar.com. I think they love Gore more than me. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 1 07:38:18 PDT 2002

29352 Fwd: Econ Forum Site Goes Down -- rank: 1000

[gee, you think he's taking responsibility indirectly?] From: "ricardo dominguez" <rdom at thing.net> To: <rtsnyc at lists.tao.ca> Subject: Econ Forum Site Goes Down Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:17:33 -0500 Econ Forum Site Goes Down By Noah Shachtman 1:35 p.m. Jan. 31, 2002 PST NEW YORK -- The website of the World Economic Forum crashed from an apparent denial-of-service attack Thursday, just as the collection of business and corporate leaders began its meeting here. Internet ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 31 16:02:14 PST 2002

29353 judges' rebellion -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - January 31, 2002 Immigration Judges Call for Independent Court By LISA GETTER Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- In a rebuke to Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, the nation's immigration judges are asking Congress to remove their courts from control of the Justice Department. The judges are particularly concerned about complaints that America's "core legal values" have been compromised since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a 20-page report sent to Congress by the ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 31 15:50:28 PST 2002

29354 Israel jails 600 reservists -- rank: 1000

Telegraph (London) - January 31, 2002 Israel jails 600 reserve soldiers in crackdown on draft dodging By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem ISRAEL has jailed 600 reserve soldiers in an attempt to halt a growing rebellion against military service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where the six-month-old Palestinian intifada has claimed the lives of several reservists and shows signs of spiralling out of control. At least 2,500 reservists have gone absent without leave, while thousands of others have becom ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 31 15:46:23 PST 2002

29355 interruption -- rank: 1000

Panix' majordomo was down this morning, from about 10-11:30 NYC time, and no messages went out. If you posted someething during that period and it didn't show up, that's why. Sorry. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 31 11:45:37 PST 2002